The Older, the Craftier

Having formed his Golden Body, Chen Ping did not hesitate. At top speed, he directly plucked that Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

Lovesick Heartbreak Red's standards for judgment were actually far more lenient than the Love God's. Chen Ping merely thought of those two foolish girls, Ning Tian and Wu Feng, spat out a mouthful of golden blood, and successfully plucked both Lovesick Heartbreak Reds at once.

Yes, two Lovesick Heartbreak Reds. Although Chen Ping's blood had only fallen upon one of them, the two Lovesick Heartbreak Reds that had grown side by side still fell together.

This showed that as long as one did not think of this person while longing for that person when picking Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but thought of them both openly and honestly, one could still pluck it.

Or rather, the most important thing when picking this thing was that one could not feel guilty. Like the armor in a certain live-action special-effects show, one had to either be righteous to the extreme or evil to the extreme. One simply could not be stuck in the middle, neither righteous nor evil, neither here nor there.

After instructing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to take Aromatic Silk Beauty's place, telling it not to cause trouble and simply stay put, and promising to bring them little trinkets from the Human World as usual after some time, Chen Ping returned to Shrek Academy at top speed.

Lovesick Heartbreak Red was mysterious, but not so mysterious that it could not be studied.

It required unwavering devotion to love, but not to the point where anyone else touching it would destroy it.

Once it had been plucked, anyone could eat it and anyone could touch it. It had not reached the point where only